Word: tear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refute a statement by Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff, that it would take 5,530 airplanes and 9,573,000 pounds of mustard gas to force the evacuation of the District of Columbia. General Fries believed that 1,000 airplanes and 40,000 pounds of tear gas would get rid of the civil population. Major Carl Spatz, D.S.C., flyer, told the Court that Air service equipment is "obsolete or obsolescent," and told how, in an attempt to find a suitable range for target practice for pursuit planes, when finally a suitable place was found...
...rent for them the latest articles in synthetic culture. At such ceremonies, important people gather-"producers" worth scads of money, "artists" whose faces are fabulous fortunes when properly painted, "directors" who have popular psychology minced up and pigeonholed to the last sentimental convulsion over a glycerine tear, "publicity directors" who have utterly exhausted all superlatives in describing the achievements of the rest...
...Enemy is a play to end war. It shows an Englishman in a friendly Australian home before the War, shows the hatred that blackens friendship as war breaks. All the abvious tear-squeezers are used? drums, marching feet and a baby starving to death. It will probably be considered by the masses to be a masterpiece...
...Cryptology and the Italian drama drops off. Scholarship standards quiver and collapse. Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere. Graduates and alumni (they are not identical) storm and sulk in the suburbs, write angry letters, tear up checks and send their sons to the University of Nebraska. The loss of these checks is more serious than the loss of the sons. There are always plenty of sons, but checks are ephemeral, and subject to seasonal influences. The autumn season, with its toll of games lost...
Then Mr. Grattan proceeded to tear Mr. Page's record to pieces...